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REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE: The world must keep up the pressure on Rangoon

Whatever momentum was gained from the international calls to free Aung San Suu Kyi and to allow for democracy in Burma on the occasion of the opposition leader’s recent 60th birthday must be sustained at all costs.

Do not oversimplify the southern troubles

Credit should go to Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon for bringing up the ongoing violence in the three Malay-speaking southernmost provinces at the recently concluded Asia-Middle East Dialogue, which brought together academics and government officials from nearly 30 Muslim countries.

Beating a beauty for entertainment

She was raped twice. She was abducted against her will, and kept locked up with chains. She was hit several times, throttled, punched in the stomach, thrown to the floor and threatened with guns and other weapons.